The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-07-16
IN THE LABOR WORLD.



---Freeland has twelve hundred Knights
Of Labor.
during June 10000 men struck againsl
lG,10O last year.
Forty thousand people in Chicago ar,
compelled to work seyen days week.
After an idleness Of some weeks the
Reading Lock works have resumed opera
tions.
-Laborers in Argentine, Ark, work
fourteen hours day and receive seventy.
five cents.
"A cooperative clothing establishment
has been formed by knights of Labor in
CleYeland, Ohio.
1T is said that 10000 persons have beer
permitted to land during the last year in
violation of the law against contract
labor,
There are three hundred and eighty.
five silk mills in the United States with
thirty thousand employees, s25, 100000 i,
invested.
The Crane iron Company will pay
their employees every two weeks in accord.
ance with the new law. Right, let Other
corporations follow suit.
During he month of June the cement
works in and around Coplay shipped 39l
cars, containing 80, 900 barrels or II, ,1G4 444
pounds of cement. Thlsis the largest ship
ment OF cement made from any point in a
month In America.
"A call has been issued from Reading,
Pa, for the organization of State Fedora
tion Of Trades, to be composed of unions
and workingnen's organizations within the
State, its object being to strengthen the
National Federation and effect combine
lion of tho various unions not affiliated
with the Knights of Labor.
The demand for labor Is stlll fully up
to the supply in nearly all handlcrafts. In
a few branches there is an insufficient sup
ply of skilled labor. In some few localities
common labor is in excess, but the work
men have means to get away, and do not
loiter long idle. Very few changes are
being made in wages. Several eight
hour victories have Been quietly won.
The development of bitumnous coal
lands this year will be greater than for any
year since the war. Large tracts for de-
velopment haye been bought up, and the
coal from most of these Will be in the market
by the first of next year The Pennsylvania,
Reading and Lehigh Valley companies ex-
pect by new connections TO get into other
bitumnops territory than which they now
reach.
Mr.. Powderly is strongly opposed to
the admission of pauper immigrants from
abroad and TO Chinese immigration. MOI
does he take kindly to the Italians and Hun
carians. He thinks the admission Of these
people degrades American labor and endan.
gers the public welfare, The Master
Workman comes from a section of the
country where the effects of evil paupei
immigration are predominant and his re
marks on the subject are undoubtedl,
based on personal observation.
Two railroads controlled by the sam,
company were chartered at the State De
partment Harrisburg, Tuesday, with
capital stock of $2S, 100000. They are sal,
TO be a part of the Baltimore and Ohio ant
Lehigh Valley scheme to run line from
New York to Pttsburg. The first is tn
Carbon, Schuylkill and Western Railroat
Company, whose capital is $40, COO. 900. 1t
length will be about 1926 miles and the roa,
will traverse Carbon, i'chuylkill, Centre
Huntingdon. Blair, Clearfield, Cambria an
Indiana counties.
Meetings of strikers held Monday th
Connelsville coke region indicate that the
are still determined TO hold out for the ad
vance. The Miners District Assembl
yesterday passed resolutions denouncin
the importation of armed forces, and cal
ing upon Gov. Beaver to remove the Pink
erton men from the regisu, as their presenc
reflects on the coke workers loyalty t
good government, is a menace to thei
homes, and an insult to their patriotism
The delegates also rendered their service
to the Sheriff and local authorities to pre-
serve and maintain good order.
There are two mem to dig coal in III
mining regions where enc can find employ
ment, and THE wages of mining have nc
been advanced, The railroad companie
have more coal to carry than they hay
cars to transport it in locomotives to pu
it to the market. Thers Is, no circuH
stance lacking which should tend to cheaI
en- prices to the consumer; but the COZ
business is done in a corner by few ma
. ters ef transportation, who make prices I
suit themselves. They don't call the
combination "a Coal Trust" but that
what it is-an illegal and irresponsible
device for cheating every man IN the who
country who bpys a ton Of coal. Dow
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